Improvement in buttons



J. P. COLLINS & A. NEILL.

BUTTON.

Patented May 3-1, 1870.

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JOHN FOOLLINS AND ARTHUR NEILL, OF NEW YORK, 'N. Y,

Letters Patent No. 103,511, dated May 31, 1870; mama May 27, 1870,

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

The Schedulereferred toln these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom may concern Be'it known that we, J can F. COLLINS and Alt-THUR NEILL, both of the city, county, and State of New York,have'invcnt-ed a new and useful Improvement in Self-fastening Buttons;and do hereby 'declarethat the following is a full and exactdescriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part ofthis specification, of which- Figurel is a vertical section, showing ourinvention as applied to an article of wearing apparei.

Figure 2, a top view of the button, with the outer suri'ace of thebutton-head removed. f

Figure 3, a side elevation of the stem of the button showing the springjaws, and

Figure 4, an elevation of the said stem asit appears while being forcedinto the buttomhead, with the spring jaws closed;

This invention, relating to a novel improvement in self-fasteningbuttons, consists of a nearly'flatdisk, surmounted by a series of springjaws, constituting the stem of the button, said spring jaws being passedthrough the wearing apparel in the first place, and next through a holein the back of the buttoirhead, the said hole being smaller in diameterthan the diameter of the expanded jaws, so that, when the spring jawspass through the hole in the back of the button, they expand, therebyuniting the button-head to its stem, and firmly securing the article ofwearingapparel between them','and the button receives the part of thegarment to be buttoned on its head, instead of on the stern, as inordinary cases.

In the,drawings- A denotes the button-head,-having a projection, B, atits back, said projection being rounded out, as shown at O, forreception of the part of the garment to be buttoned thereon. v

D- is av circular hole inithe back of said b'utton, throu h which thespring-jawed stem is inserted this upward, These spring jaws taper fromthe disk f to 'theIja'ws g g,v said jawsforming an acute angle at 13,corresponding to the sharp projection or elongation of the hole in thehack of the button, as shown at d d, fig.

1,.t-he objectof the acute angle in said jaws being to overlapthecorresponding project-ions d d on the inside of the button, whereby thejaws are held expanded, and prevented from approaching each other by anyundue strain on the button; and K represents the cloth squeezed up andheld firmly between the buttonhead and stem, while the garment isbuttoned on thehead.

' "lo detach our button from the garment on which it is thus fastened,is. simply to pass a loop of twist around the stem, between the clothand buttonhead, and press the stem forward until the jaws g g arereleased from the projections ll-d, and nextdraw the loop tightly, whenthe jaws will-assume the form shown in fig. 4, and be released from the'bntton head and cloth with ease and despatch.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of the button recess I), having the raised or acute edge(I, and-the springbars g g of the fastener, having heads M fitting overthe raised edge d, substantially as and for the'purpose hereinspecified.

In testimony'whereof, we have hereunto set our signatures this 30th dayof May, 1868.

JOHN F. COLLINS. A. NEILL.

- Witnesses: I

G. W. MADOX, T. E. PRETTYM N.

